You are building a "many to many" relationship.
How to do it:
* Each staff member should have an unique ID (eg StaffMember_ID) in the
Staff table;
* Each subject has an ID in the SubjectTitles table;
* and you need a third table, with two fields: StaffMember_ID and
SubjectTitle_ID, plus extra data if needed (eg: due date, assignment date,
comments, priority, ...)
When you assign a subject to a staff member, you add a record to that table.
Hope this helps you.
Regards,
Jean-Claude
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From: "Mark Worsdall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 9:22 PM
Subject: ADVICE: Best way to store multi values
> Hi,
>
> I have a table called staff which currently has a column called
> subjectTitles_id which is the type INTEGER.
>
> I have another table called subjectTitles which contains 12 subject
> titles.
>
> So that is how a member of staff is assigned a subject.
>
> Trouble is I need to be able to assign a multiple number of subjects to
> anyone member of staff.
>
> The method I thought to use was change staff.subjectTitles_id from
> INTEGER type to CHAR type and store a string of CSV numbers which
> correspond to the id's of the table subjectTitles, e.g.:-
>
> 1;2;7;10
>
> Is this the way?
>
> It seems quite ungraceful.
>
> M.
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